Motivational Quotes

Fear

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

- Parsons, Wendell

Best Quotes about Fear

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fear guides more than gratitude.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

20.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear is what kills us.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

Lucan, F. L.

40.

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.